Registration and morning coffee

Chair’s Welcome and opening remarks

Opening keynote: AI and the latest technology trends for business and for professional services

- what are the techs on the AI horizon that firms should keep an eye on
- AI and its impact in the B2C sphere and how might it translate to B2B markets
- what are the B2B AI use cases out there
- other tech trends and their intersection with AI: a look at the impact of virtual reality, augmented reality, blockchain etc and their impact on AI development

Commodity or crown jewels: is the benefit from AI all about data?

Will the exploitation of data turn out to be AI’s true utility? What is the potential to use both open source and proprietary data to help you better understand your clients/customers/marketplace? To develop new products? To discover new markets?

AI and professional services pricing: how can you charge for AI?

Three heads of AI in professional services firms (legal, accountancy and consultancy) will each provide a brief look (5-7 min) at the options for charging for AI-enabled products and services. Followed by Q&A with the audience using the Sli.do wireless voting system.

Networking Break

11:20 am

A tech map of the legal AI sector – and what that can tell us about AI and the professional services market

The legal sector is a leader and bellwether in the use of AI. This session will look at legal as a great example of how a professional services sector is using artificial intelligence, and as an indicator of AI’s potential more broadly across the professions.

Vendor Showcase One

Our vendor showcases are designed to provide education for the professional services sector – these sessions are NOT SALES PITCHES. By featuring a wide selection of vendors, we aim to provide delegates with a genuinely objective overview of AI products that are specifically relevant to the professional services sector.

Four AI vendors will each present a fast-paced, short presentation demonstrating one AI product, in one use case. Each short showcase will cover: • what it does • how it works • what it costs • what it achieved for our client/s

Showcase 1| Termi
Termi is a chatbot designed to take the complexity out of getting relevant data to a lawyer. Using natural language, users can request information which is delivered via desktop or mobile, eliminating the need to learn multiple systems and interfaces to obtain key business information. Termi makes it extremely easy for lawyers to access the information they need, wherever they might be.Bim Dave, Executive Vice President, Products & Services, Helm360

Showcase 2| Luminance
Luminance is the market-leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal industry. Trained by legal experts, the technology understands language the way humans do, in volumes and at speeds that humans will never achieve. It provides an immediate and global overview of any company, picking out warning signs without needing any instruction. Whether used for due diligence, compliance, insurance or contract management, Luminance adds value to a legal team, freeing lawyers to focus on what matters.Emily Foges, CEO, Luminance

Showcase 3| Eigen Technologies
Eigen Technologies is a research-led artificial intelligence company located in London and New York. We provide industry-leading solutions in data analysis for clients in the legal, financial, and professional services sectors. Our technology incorporates methods from applied physics, machine learning, and mathematics that enable our products to abstract insights from structured text in highly customizable ways, with exponentially less training data than traditional methods.
Dr Lewis Z Liu, Co-founder & CEO, Eigen Technologies

Showcase 4| Kim
Kim is an AI-enabled Knowledge Automation platform. Through its no-code configuration model Kim enables knowledge workers, with no software development expertise, to take control of their business processes to improve decision making, speed, effectiveness and reporting.Karl Chapman, CEO, Riverview Law, Chairman Kim Technologies

Lunch and networking break

1:40 pm

Use Cases | Session One

Three use cases – one each from accountancy, legal and consultancy - will demonstrate firms’ real-life experiences of putting AI into practice. Each 20-minute use case will run twice so that delegates can attend two of the three offered.

A1| Accountancy use caseApplying AI to the audit process
KPMG is using predictive analytics in evidence gathering and production of complex data reports. The technology allows KPMG to challenge the predictions that underpin asset valuations on clients’ balance sheets, mitigating risk for clients.Nick Frost, Audit Technology Partner, KPMG

Use Cases | Session Two

Three use cases – one each from accountancy, legal and consultancy - will demonstrate firms’ real-life experiences of putting AI into practice. Each 20-minute use case will run twice so that delegates can attend two of the three offered.

B2| Legal use caseEmbedding AI in a law firm
Ashurst uses a machine learning review platform for contract analysis. The technology enables Ashurst to enhance its client service by accelerating document reviews and reducing client risk. However, it takes careful change management to embed its use into the everyday life of its lawyers and clients and to ensure the value is maximised.Christie Guimond, R&D Strategy Executive, Innovation Group, Ashurst

Use Cases | Session Three

Three use cases – one each from accountancy, legal and consultancy - will demonstrate firms’ real-life experiences of putting AI into practice. Each 20-minute use case will run twice so that delegates can attend two of the three offered.

B3| Legal use caseUsing AI to solve the problem of misaddressed emails
We’ve all had that sinking feeling after sending an email to wrong person. With hundreds of thousands of emails leaving your organisation each month, do you know what your exposure is? With your clients placing their trust in you handling their data, and the forthcoming GDPR, the resulting penalties for a misaddressed email could be higher than just red faces. This use case will examine how Foot Anstey is using CheckRecipient’s AI platform to prevent highly sensitive information from leaving their organisation (with minimum end-user behaviour change).Duncan Eadie, Partner, Foot Anstey

C3| Consultancy use caseAI for M&A due diligence review
CAS (Carillion Advice Services) is a leading innovator in managed legal services and they provide fast, high quality, cost-effective outsourcing of commoditised legal processes. CAS will demonstrate their firms’ experience of putting Luminance into practice saving businesses money on their legal budgets and freeing qualified in-house lawyers from low-value repetitive work.

Vendor Showcase Two

Our vendor showcases are designed to provide education for the professional services sector – these sessions are NOT SALES PITCHES. By featuring a wide selection of vendors, we aim to provide delegates with a genuinely objective overview of AI products that are specifically relevant to the professional services sector.

Four AI vendors will each present a fast-paced, short presentation demonstrating one AI product, in one use case. Each short showcase will cover: • what it does • how it works • what it costs • what it achieved for our client/s

Showcase 5| Billy BotBilly Bot is designed to do the work of a traditional barristers’ clerk and to provide access to legal services. Billy acts as a bridge between the seller and buyer of professional services – speeding up the triage of customers and acting as an online clerk, while collecting customer data and communicating with various systems through an expanding API library.Stephen Ward, Managing Director, Clerksroom and Clerksroom Direct

Showcase 6| RAVN
RAVN is a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence platform that powers a number of applications to automatically organize, discover and summarize your documents. The RAVN platform sets the pace of the market allowing all types of organizations to increase efficiency, increase productivity and mitigate risk.Peter Wallqvist, Founder, RAVN

Showcase 7| Neota Logic
We believe in a future for professional services that is both automated and transformed, where technology changes the nature of service delivery and extends the reach of experts to new audiences. The Neota Logic System (NLS) consists of an AI-powered platform and comprehensive toolset that allows professionals to rapidly build and deploy application solutions that automate their expertise, increasing productivity, improving client satisfaction and creating new business opportunities.Rick Seabrook, Managing Director Europe, Neota Logic

The big Alternative AI debate: Will the partnership model kill AI? Or will AI kill the partnership model?

Two panels of professional services leaders will take opposing sides to debate the impact of AI on the traditional partnership model, and vice versa. What will be the shape of the future professional services partnerships and will the partnership pyramid survive the era of AI? At the end of the session, delegates will be asked to “vote with their feet” by choosing which side’s argument they support.